Does Game one really matter?

[greyforest]

His obvious slant of statistics (meaning he tries to pick the least favorable statistics for the Spurs) would not lead anyone to think that he is a regular spurs fan, Kori.

Would a real Spurs fan go out of his way to obfuscate the issue like this, removing the fact that the Spurs have home court from the equation?

dude are you on ing crack? I WILL HIGHLIGHT IMPORTANT PARTS WITH SIZE=4

someone finally asked the right question.

i dont know how to find the answers but find:
-percentage of home teams that win their series in a 7 game series
-percentage of home teams that win their series after a game 1 win in a 7 game series

the difference between these two percentages is exactly the answer to the question "does game one really matter?"

seriously, what the is wrong with you? the question i posed is perfectly statistically pertinent to the question the original poster asked.

from hereon i will refer to you as "crackhead", because you are OBVIOUSLY smoking crack.

LOOK AT ALL THIS BULL this person posted because they didn't read my ing post.

[greyforest]

just incase crackhead attempts to edit his post, here it is in all of its glory:


LMFAO

[greyforest]

just to clarify for those who don't want to waste their time digging through your post filled with idiocy:

here is my question:

-percentage of home teams that win their series after a game 1 win in a 7 game series

and here is yours:

What percentage of times does the home team win the series when they win game 1?

GOD IM SUCH A ING RE TROLL, I DONT KNOW WHAT THE IM TALKING ABOUT

[Reggie Miller]

Well, just to get back on track...

"Conventional wisdom" has always been that games 1 and 3 are the most important in a 7 game series of the 2-3-2 format. The NBA doesn't use that format, however.

Sports Geek mode on:

As the above suggests, sports statistics that pool data from all American major league sports can be flawed. This is because the vast majority of the data tends to come from baseball (100-162 games a year for over a century in the National league, for example). When you start talking playoffs, the stats aren't as skewed, because baseball didn't have a playoff system until almost 40 years ago. (That is, the best record in each league played in the WS, no divisions, etc.) At any rate, I thought it was interesting enough to mention. I hope you did too.

Sports Geek mode off:

At any rate, I think "conventional wisdom" still holds true in a 2-2-1-1-1 series. Game 1 either negates or reinforces home court advantage. The possible outcomes of Game 3 are: 0-3, 1-2, 2-1, and 3-0. Since you can't tie on an odd-numbered game, Game 3's possible outcomes give one team a significant advantage, possibly even an insurmountable advantage. (The Red Sox had to go and screw up the previous finality of 3-0...now no one will ever feel safe again!)